Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GLANVILL, JOSEPH. Sadducismus Triumphatus; or, A Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions . . . Fourth Edition [sic]. [14], 35, [1]; [10], 161, [5]; [14], 223-498, [6] pages, including frontispieces to first 2 parts, and plate and 2 ad leaves at end of third part. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo, 197x118 mm, 19th-century calf, rebacked; intermittent foxing and dark toning. Bookplate of the magician Joseph Dunninger (aka "The Amazing Dunninger," 1892-1975) designed by Mahlon Blaine. London: A. Bettesworth et al., 1726

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Later edition of Glanvill's 1681 work on the reality of witchcraft and supernatural phenomena. Robbins, pages 223-24. Thorndike VIII, 567-68.